SchoolsBegumpet, HyderabadGowtham Model School

We walk past Gowtham Model School in Begumpet every evening. What's class 1 homework like there?

banyan_lantern_9342

Our daughter is in an IB school right now, 40 minutes each way, and she'll start class 1 next June. Gowtham Model School is five minutes' walk from home, so it keeps coming up. I'm a teacher at a CBSE school, so I know what class 1 homework looks like there. I don't know what it looks like in a State Board school. A page a day, a weekly sheet, written work in every subject? Anyone with a young child there?

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  • silver_sketch_5324

    Our daughter's early years were at another State Board school, not this one. Homework then was mostly copying letters and numbers, a page or so, more before tests. That was over ten years ago, though, and I would expect things have changed. Since you're five minutes away, the office might show you a class 1 notebook if you ask.

    • lemon_kite_4432

      Seeing a notebook is a good idea. I'd also ask how much of it the child is expected to do alone. At class 1, a lot of homework ends up being the parent's homework.

  • moss_pool_8254

    A neighbour's son was there in the primary years. From what she told me, there was written homework most days but it was short, and the bigger load started around class 3. Treat that as one family's experience, not a rule.

    • banyan_lantern_9342

      class 3 is when it gets heavier at my school too. 'short' is what i want to hear for class 1, as long as it isn't short plus a tuition

    • breezy_quilt_7063

      Replying to @banyan_lantern_9342

      Does homework in class 1 do anything at all? Asking because our one year old will be facing it soon enough.

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